Billiard-register



KELLOGG & HILL.

Billiard Register.

Patented Oct. 2, 1866 Ira/en E0135; Gf/f 9 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

O. W. KELLOGG AND H. It. HILL, OF RIPON, IVISCONSIN.

BlLLlARD-REGISTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,429, dated October 2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, 0. WV. KELLOGG and H. R. HILL, of Ripon, Fond du Lac county, and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard-Registers, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 represents a plan view. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal vertical section.

Our invention consists in a device by which the games of billiards may be registered, the particulars of which are hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing herewith presented, and forming a part of this specification, A A represent two circular dial-plates having upon their faces a series of numbers, beginning at 0 and running to 9. Directly opposite each number is an opening, B, to be made either circular, oblong, or other suitable shape. These dial-plates are attached together and placed directly opposite each other, and numbers of one corresponding with the other. At the under part of each plate a piece is taken out, so that when they are put together a slot is there formed, the purposes of-which will be described.

M represents aho'rizontal bar, which passes through the centers of both dials. Attached to this bar, and directly beneath the dial-plates, are two thin metallic disks, D D. These disks are slightly smaller than the plates themselves, and upon each disk, and directly opposite, are painted or colored two circular, oblong, or other shaped spots, (according to the shapes of the openings 13,) 0, Fig. 1.

These spots, being colored other than the faces, designate, by the numbers opposite the opening beneath which the spots may be, the number of games played.

Upon the bar M, and between the disks D,

is a ratchet, E, which revolves the bar M, with disks D attached.

F represents the pendulum, which consists of a metallic bar encircling the horizontal barM, and hanging perpendicularly, having a wire, K, attached and crooked at the lower end, as seen in the accompanying drawings. At the upper portion of the pendulum there is a spring, H, which spring extends from the pendulum to the ratchet, acting, as it does, in the capacity of a dog to the ratchet.

ato represent two stays, (one on each side of each of the disks D,) and prevent the said disks from coming in too close contact with the dial-plates A.

In using this register, it is attached to the ceiling above and the pendulum hangs downward. The wire upon which the ordinary counts are placed is run through the crook in pen dulum-wire between the counts. It will be seen that by pushing the pendulum it carries the two disks around by means of the ratchet and the spring acting as a dog. A person can only count forward, as it cannot be turned back after a count is once made on it.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The dial-plates A A, with disks D D, bar M, ratchet E, and pendulum F, arranged in the manner substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

2. The pendulum F, attached to the countwire, when used as and for the purposes set forth.

As evidence that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses.

O. W. KELLOGG. H. B. HILL.

Witnesses:

D. GREENWAY, F. D. BooTH. 

